Deloitte claims that "By working together, we create the trust needed to innovate and deliver lasting impact." Sure.
They collect millions from GovNL and don't even bother to check their reports for AI hallucinations. No trust here.
Deloitte claims that "By working together, we create the trust needed to innovate and deliver lasting impact." Sure.
They collect millions from GovNL and don't even bother to check their reports for AI hallucinations. No trust here.
Digital asbestos at work.
Major report on provincial education policy advocates for AI.
Major report on provincial education policy cites 12+ hallucinations.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
"Meanwhile, university administrators express boosterish optimism about A.I., leaving little room for skepticism."
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...
“While companies are using AI to reduce costs, students are using it for all uni work and to replace thinking, and are subsequently de-optimising themselves for future jobs.”
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/j...
This is important.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/o...
Threats against universities by Pierre Poilievre and the CPC are straight out of the fascist playbook.
23.04.2025 17:58 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
CPC leader Pierre Poilievre has stated that, if elected, he would cut funding to Canadian universities that fail to combat anti-Semitism on campus.
Very Tяumpy of him.
Legitimate criticism of the the government of Israel ≠ antisemitism.
ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/215...?
www.nytimes.com/video/world/...
How Meta's journalism ban has paved the way for groups like "Canada Proud"... a so-called 'charitable organization' with 630K members and a stated mission of "Fighting to defeat the unelected Carney Liberals."
"... to bet against the future on this scale – to bank
on your bunker – is to betray, on the most basic level, our duties to one another."
"People have the power...the power to dream, to rule, to wrestle the world from fools."
P. Smith
Timothy Snyder Has Seen Tyrants Like Trump Before - macleans.ca/the-intervie...
05.04.2025 19:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A poster that reads Memorial University at a Crossroads: 100 Years later, with a QR code that leads to a petition to protect Memorial University as a comprehensive university.
Some folks at MUN have started a petition to raise the issue of chronic de-funding of education with the government. Sign it!
03.04.2025 16:56 — 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
A comics page in black and white. Arranged in 5 tiers of panels, each with successively smaller panels and more per row - with the exception of the first. Opens with no panel border - silhouette of a hand in a gun position - with smoke coming from index finger. speech balloon “i could stand in the middle of fifth avenue and shoot somebody and i wouldn’t lose any voters, ok?” Caption “this is perhaps the most truthful thing trump has ever said…” Same row - more than half page width panel with three drawings of trump making jerky body distortions mocking cerebral palsy. Caption “one might’ve assumed when he mocked reporter serge kovaleski that it would cross a line and be the end of him in public life.” Speech balloon “now the poor guy, you ought to see this guy!” Caption “that was naive.” Next row, first panel, slightly more than page width - closeup on trump’s open mouth, shouting “when you’re a star, they let you do it. you can do anything. Grab ‘em by the pussy. you can do anything.” Caption “surely, there’d be no coming back from this?” Second panel - silhouettes of tiki torch carrying rioters with their shirt collars showing. Caption “or this?” Dialogue “you also had some very fine people on both sides.” Caption “and yet…” Third row - three panels, first slightly more than a third, rest smaller still. Silhouette of trump throwing a paper towel roll like shooting a basketball. Dialogue “a great day…” Caption “c’mon…”. Second panel closeup on his lips, dialogue “why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” Caption “really?” Third panel closeup on a coiled-style phone cord, dialogue “i would like you to do us a favor, though.” In background words from the first articles of impeachment for high crimes and misdemeanors. Dialogue “the call with ukraine was perfect, with “no pressure.” full alt-text on my site at the link
I made a comic on how we got here & trump/supporters - collecting things he's said that would seem to have been over the line - and how that never seems to be the case is the real problem...
on my site with full alt-text and citations here spinweaveandcut.com/draw-the-line/
"We are leaving Yale."
""I am a historian of the 20th century, of Eastern Europe, and of totalitarianism. History doesn't tell you what will happen, but it shows what can happen. I know what an "enemy list" is. And once you understand what can happen, you can't not know."
That's why I already knew in 2015, when Trump appeared: This is going to be terrible. I grasped the dimension of post-factual politics, of detachment from reality, faster than many Americans – not because I'm smarter...
03.04.2025 11:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"5. Remember professional ethics.
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Where we are
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Please sign this petition started by a group of Newfoundland and Labrador parents calling on government to keep MUN comprehensive. We don’t want to have to send our kids to the mainland for University #FundMUN : win.newmode.net/memorialpare...
28.03.2025 07:48 — 👍 7 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
The NL government attitude to @memorialu.bsky.social is heartbreaking, but also puzzling. Our university contributes so much to our social & economic well-being. How many of us, including Andrew Furey and his cabinet, would be where we are without Memorial? #FundMUN
vocm.com/2025/03/26/p...
A photo of a paragraph from a book: " In this world after the End of History, both American Capitalism and post-Soviet oligarchy have produced a speciality PR market for gangsters; and reality television has done away with the distinction between the fictional and real. This is a world where warlords can promote themselves on Instagram and Twitter, and Ukrainian and American oligarchs with presidential aspirations can share a strategic advisor.
This passage from the preface of @marcishore.bsky.social's "The Ukrainian Night" written in January 2017 sticks with me, because of its prescience.
26.03.2025 20:40 — 👍 43 🔁 16 💬 2 📌 1When I wrote my camps book, people sometimes had difficulty understanding how concentration-camp regimes were proud of what they were doing and wanted attention for it, even as they also hoped to keep many aspects secret and terrorize vulnerable classes. Anyway, this is what that looks like.
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“Hitler systematically disabled and then dismantled his country’s democratic structures and processes in less than two months’ time—specifically, one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours, and 40 minutes,” Timothy W. Ryback writes in a step-by-step account:
19.02.2025 21:07 — 👍 1312 🔁 593 💬 71 📌 51
